Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 20:51:06 GMT
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
I formatted it as a master... I just set the bios on Auto for the master..
This same procedure worked fine when I re-formatted the 810meg drive,
dumped win98 on it and stuffed it back in the latop. But the same thing
doesn't work with this new drive. Heck, you would think a toshiba drive
would work in a toshiba laptop. :-)
Alex
neil barnes writes:
> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 18:04:22
> From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
>
> below...
>
>
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
> >Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2001 08:00:30 -0800
> >
> >Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2001 15:48:21 GMT
> >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Need some urgent Libretto 50CT help...
> >
> >
> >Neil,
> >
> > I tried thata this morning and has no luck. I pulled out the drive and
> >turned on the 50 with out the pcmcia floppy. After a while it gave the
> >"Please insert disk.." message. I turned it off, inserted the new
> ok so far...
>
> hd,
> >turned it on. Waited and waited, got the "Please insert disk..",
> um...not good...
>
> turned it
> >off, put in the pcmcia floppy, turned it back on. I got the "Please insert
> >disk.." message, but could not access the floppy. Also, I noticed that
>
> um...very not good...does it see the disk when you try and load the bios?
> I've not gone beyond 6.5, does everything i need to do :)
>
> >that "please insert.." message appears somewhere in the middle of the bios
> >init, because it doesn't even prompt me for the bios password.
>
> that doesn't surprise me, it's almost *got* to check the hardware before
> running the OS
>
>
> > This is really very weird, as the HD does indeed work.. could it be that
> >it's failing because I've formatted already on a different machine? Should
>
> There should be no problem there...don't *ever* low-level format an IDE disk
> (actually you'll have a job getting the software to do it, it's
> manufacturer/type specific)
>
> >I low level it? How does the Libretto bios detect that it needs to create
> >the hibernation partition... :-)
>
> It sees how much it's got, and when the format program asks the bios how
> much to format, it lies to windows. This is not a sin :)
>
> Thinks - is this one of the disks that has a master/slave select
> requirement? (I'm pretty certain it's a standard tosh drive)
> Did you format it as a slave in the desktop?
>
> Neil
>
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